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Contested landscapes : movement, exile and place

Author: Barbara Bender; Margot Winer
Publisher: Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Landscapes are not just backdrops to human action - people make them and are made by them. The contributors to this book tackle contested notions of landscape to explain the key role it plays in  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Kapstadt (1999)
Congresses
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Contested landscapes.
Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2001
(OCoLC)606587999
Material Type: Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara Bender; Margot Winer
ISBN: 1859734626 9781859734629 1859734677 9781859734674
OCLC Number: 46433384
Notes: Proceedings of a landscape session at the World Archaeological Congress held Cape Town, South Africa 1999.
Description: xvi, 372 p., 10 p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: The shadow of the sacred rock: contrasting discourses of place under the Acropolis --
Matter and memory in the landscapes of conflict: the Western Front 1914-1999 --
Contested landscapes in Inner Mongolia: walls and cairns --
Negotiating the river: cultural tributaries in Far North Queensland --
Crannogs: places of resistance in the contested landscapes of early modern Ireland --
Landscapes of punishment and resistance: a female convict settlement in Tasmania, Australia --
Cultural keepers, cultural brokers: the landscape of women and children --
a case study of the town Dahab in South Sinai --
Whose new forest? Making place on the urban/rural fringe --
The political economy of landscape: conflict and value in a prehistoric landscape in the Republic of Ireland --
ways of telling --
Bringing contemporary baggage to neolithic landscapes --
Landscape and commerce: creating contexts for the exercise of power --
Pilgrimage and politics in the desert of Rajasthan --
Landscapes of separation: reflections on the symbolism of by-pass roads in Palestine --
Rites of passage: travel and the materiality of vision at the Cape of Good Hope --
Landscapes, fear and land loss on the nineteenth-century South African colonial frontier --
Places of longing and belonging: memories of the group area proclamation of a South African fishing village --
Homes and exiles: Owambo women's literature --
Egypt: constructed exiles of the imagination --
Migration, exile and landscapes of the imagination --
Hunting down home: reflections on homeland and the search for identity in the Scottish diaspora.
Other Titles: Movement, exile and place
Responsibility: edited by Barbara Bender and Margot Winer.

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